They replied, &#8220;You have saved our lives! You are showing us favor,<n id="1" /> and we will be Pharaoh&#8217;s slaves.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;See, I have made you like God<n id="1" /> to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.<n id="2" />

you must say to them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;We were Pharaoh&#8217;s slaves in Egypt, but the <sc>Lordsc> brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each<n id="1" /> of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe.<n id="2" /> So the land became Pharaoh&#8217;s.

<p class="bodytext">So Joseph made it a statute,<n id="1" /> which is in effect<n id="2" /> to this day throughout the land of Egypt: One-fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh&#8217;s.p>

Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh the required amount of silver and gold, but to meet Pharaoh&#8217;s demands Jehoiakim had to tax the land. He collected an assessed amount from each man among the people of the land in order to pay Pharaoh Necho.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, &#8220;Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning.<n id="1" /> God has revealed<n id="2" /> to Pharaoh what he is about to do.<n id="3" />

So now, it is not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me an adviser<n id="1" /> to Pharaoh, lord over all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Joseph went and told Pharaoh, &#8220;My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land ofp> <p class="bodytext">Canaan. They are now<n id="1" /> in the land of Goshen.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Joseph said to the people, &#8220;Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate<n id="1" /> the land.

When you gather in the crop,<n id="1" /> give<n id="2" /> one-fifth of it to Pharaoh, and the rest<n id="3" /> will be yours for seed for the fields and for you to eat, including those in your households and your little children.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">So they put foremen<n id="1" /> over the Israelites<n id="2" /> to oppress<n id="3" /> them with hard labor. As a result<n id="4" /> they built Pithom and Rameses<n id="5" /> as store cities for Pharaoh.

<p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh,<n id="1" /> for compelled by my strong hand<n id="2" /> he will release them, and by my strong hand he will drive them out of his land.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Moses said to Pharaoh, &#8220;You may have the honor over me<n id="1" /> &#8211; when shall I pray for you, your servants, and your people, for the frogs to be removed<n id="2" /> from you and your houses, so that<n id="3" /> they will be left<n id="4" /> only in the Nile?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> because of<n id="2" /> the frogs that he had brought on<n id="3" /> Pharaoh.

you must not fear them. You must carefully recall<n id="1" /> what the <sc>Lordsc> your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt,

They did not see<n id="1" /> the awesome deeds he performed<n id="2" /> in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and his whole land,

He did<n id="1" /> all the signs and wonders the <sc>Lordsc> had sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, all his servants, and the whole land,

<p class="bodytext">In the morning he<n id="1" /> was troubled, so he called for<n id="2" /> all the diviner-priests<n id="3" /> of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams,<n id="4" /> but no one could interpret<n id="5" /> them for him.<n id="6" />

Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father&#8217;s household, &#8220;I will go up and tell Pharaoh,<n id="1" /> &#8216;My brothers and my father&#8217;s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.